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NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North …

In the Top 20 Wireless Resellers list (Jan. 11), Discount Cellular Inc. and The Mobile Phone Co. were listed wrong. The companies are agents for Omnipoint. Discount Cellular also is …

Today’s telecommunications behemoths soon will rank right up there with journalists and used-car salesman on the “Who don’t you trust” list. As competition tries to come to the telecom industry, …

JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc. announced it will launch a 1900 MHz personal communications services wireless network as an affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The network will cover Mississippi, Alabama and …

AT&T Wireless employee wounded in Utah shooting SALT LAKE CITY-The Associated Press reported AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater was shot in the head Thursday by a woman demanding …

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Inc. announced it has formed its joint venture with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide personal communications services in the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, markets. Cincinnati Bell acquired …

WASHINGTON-The commercial mobile radio services rate integration order released by the Federal Communications Commission on New Year’s Eve could have an impact on the proposed merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week said he would consider further wireless deregulation and intends to streamline operations, objectives that could help defuse plans on Capitol Hill to …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. announced Friday it has postponed indefinitely a plan to create a separate class of stock that would have tracked its wireless business and the cable TV business …

The nation’s largest independent cellular carrier last week entertained bids from two potential acquirers in what could become a global bidding war. AirTouch Communications Inc. last week confirmed it was …

NEW YORK-“Much to the shock of my sales team, vendors are not partners with an equity stake in carriers, and loans are not investments without repayment expectations,” Leslie L. Rogers …

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network of affiliate, announced it selected SunCom as the brand name for its wireless network in the Southeast. The company is …

We are witnesses to history in the making. Yes, yes, tomorrow’s students will study the impeachment of President Clinton in History class (now isn’t that something to look forward to), …

WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. gave itself an early Christmas present on Dec. 23 when it announced it was buying Claircom Communications Group Inc. from AT&T Corp. and Rogers Cantel for $65 million …

Will ’99 be the year wireless becomes airborne? Iridium, hoping to further entice business travelers to trust and use the Iridium name, spent $65 million in December to buy Claircom …

NEW YORK-Start-up American companies searching the financing firmament for venture capital might do better by setting their sights upward toward the hidden realm occupied by angels. Angel investors are high-net-worth …

NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis …

New Enterprise Associates New Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent …

MEXICO CITY-Imagine the following scenario: A company enters into a government auction to obtain spectrum. After an extremely long process, it wins frequencies because other participants couldn’t follow the pace …

SINGAPORE-Over the last few months, British Telecommunications plc has been on a buying spree that would put any seasoned shopaholic to shame-chalking up a bill of more than US$1 billion …

PCIA The Personal Communications Industry Association appointed Brent Weingardt vice president of government relations. Weingardt previously was regulatory counsel for Iridium LLC where he gave legal advice on regulatory matters …

WASHINGTON-With a panoply of prickly issues tied to major telecom policies of local competition, disability access, spectrum management and digital wiretap compliance, the future could not be cloudier for the …

At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of …

SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital One Rate pricing plan has wreaked havoc on …

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc., Alexandria, Va., was expected to place privately last week a $250 million issue of 10-year senior subordinated notes that cannot be redeemed by the paging carrier for …